Ableton Live Tutorial: Flying Lotus' 'Camel' - Beat Deconstruction pt 1

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Have you ever wondered what your favorite producers are thinking when they're making beats? Dubspot instructor, Ableton Live expert and award winning music educator, Pat Cupo, explains his concept of "Beat Deconstruction". In this tutorial, Cupo takes a two measure loop of Flying Lotus' "Camel" from his Los Angles LP (2008) and breaks down the beat into it's four main components: kick, snare, hi-hat, and percussion, each having it's own dedicated clip in an audio track. By using Warp Markers as visual place holders to highlight when and where each component occurs in an audio clip, we can begin to understand how the beat was conceptualized. Using the Slice to New MIDI function in Live set to slice the audio at the "Warp Marker", new MIDI clips are created that contain a series of MIDI notes corresponding to the Warp Markers from their original audio clips. Once this has been done, all of the MIDI information is taken to the Arrangement View to view the clips as a musical score. After a little editing, the music seems to pop out from the screen and we can see the beat in it's entirety as if we programmed it ourselves.

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• ableton live
• ableton
• tutorial
• training
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• Production tips & tricks
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• ableton Live tutorial
• Pat Cupo
• Flying Lotus
• Flying Lotus Camel
• beats
• Dubspot
• Beat Deconstruction
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[RobertCella]

Super helpful for us beginners....thx guys :)

[DubSpot]

@RobertCella glad you found it helpful, be sure to check out our online ableton courses at dubspot.com which are taught by Pat Cupo who made this video.

[WileyHouseProject]

Looking forward to pt 2.

[DubSpot]

@WileyHouseProject it's coming soon, we're just in the middle of launching our new online Ableton course (check dubspot.com for more info). When Pat get's a free minute he'll finish Pt. 2 and we'll upload it, thanks for your patience! Be sure to subscribe to our channel so you can get notification as soon as it goes up.

[berbesso]

Great tipp!!! Thx a lot for that!! But where is Pt. 2??? ......can't find it, I suppose it is not online yet, is it??

[DubSpot]

@berbesso it will be online in the next few days, if you subscribe you'll get a notification when it goes up.

[colbertvp]

great tutorial but I do not understand the use of beat deconstruction

[Vincentgriezelig]

@colbertvp It's to learn the patterns. this way you can see all the drum hits and stuff.

this is a strange way of doing it though.

[jailbreakir]

where exactly is part 2? i havent seen it on dubspot, is it just staring me in the face?

[joel1445]

I understand how you make the drum beat . but how do you make the melody?

[MCkidKool]

Im dont get the point of this. my ears can do it 10 times faster

[bootr0s]

i cant beleive this technique has been staring me in the face for all this time!

[audiopilz]

This has to rate as one of My favorite On-Line tutorials to date. The implications of this technique are sooooooo far reaching. FOOKIN LOVE IT!!!

Only one small problem.........

I am HUNGRY as Hell for the next part!! Is there gonna be a part 2?

Keep up the GREAT work! :)

[JunkieSmurf]

dude, you kinda sound like jason segel. trippy.

[Spoonman455]

@koostapo But you could just listen, and get the same information without relying on technology

[ssiegert12]

how do you change the note of a drum beat? when i click fold and change the note nothing plays

[hi5aif]

uhh isnt this a waste of time ?

[Everythingsleeps]

wish you would of at least played all the tracks without the original solo track..so we can hear a perspective of what the deconstruction would sound like